Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
07-06-2017
NEXT STORY IS THIS EXTRATERRESTRIAL? EARTH RECEIVES STRANGE “RADIO BURSTS” FROM SPACE
NEXT STORY IS THIS EXTRATERRESTRIAL? EARTH RECEIVES STRANGE “RADIO BURSTS” FROM SPACE
Strange radio wave flashes from far outside of our Milky Way galaxy (or in it) have scientists completely confused. Since 2001, telescopes have been picking up on what are referred to as fast radio bursts (FRBs). Only a total of ten have ever been detected, with the most recent one occurring just a few months ago. The bursts last just a few milliseconds and then explode with just as much energy as our Sun releases in a month, which is extremely huge, and again, very confusing and mysterious.
The burst of 2014 was the first one in history that was caught in action by the Parkes Telescope in New South Wales, Australia. The others were found by examining data after the bursts had already arrived on Earth. Again, these bursts have astronomers very confused, as no one knows what causes them. What scientists do know is that their source most likely has to be small, because they occur in such a short span of time. They are also only approximately a few hundred kilometers across, so that rules out any stars as being the culprit.
It’s not only the fact that astronomers are completely clueless, but as a new scientist points out:
“The weird part is that they all fit a pattern that doesn’t match what we know about cosmic physics.”
Michael Hippke at the Institute for Data Analysis In Neukrichen-Vluyn, Germany, and John Learned at the Univeristy of Hawaii in Manoa, have not ruled out the possibility that these bursts come from somewhere within our galaxy. They determined this by calculating how far the bursts have travelled, a technique known as “the dispersion measure.”
“Each burst covers a range of radio frequencies, as if the whole FM band were playing the same song. But electrons in space scatter and delay the radiation, so that higher frequency waves make it across space faster than lower frequency waves. The more space the signal crosses, the bigger the difference, or dispersion measure, between the arrival time of high and low frequencies – and the further the signal has travelled.” (source)
(You can view the paper that was published on the most recent burst, in the list of sources at the end of the article)
As a result of their calculations, they believe that the source is much closer to home, from a group of objects within our Milky Way galaxy that are emitting shorter-frequency radio waves after higher-frequency radio waves.
It’s also interesting to note that all 10 of the detected bursts since 2001 have dispersion measures that are multiples of 187.5. This is both fascinating and unexplainable, and they are suggesting that this line-up of the dispersion implies five sources for the bursts that are all at regularly spaced distances from Earth.
According to their research, there is a 5 in 10,000 probability that this type of line-up is a coincidence, and that it is “very, very hard to explain.”
What could the sources of these signals heading towards Earth be? Are they some unidentified cosmic objects? Is it human, manmade technology? Or is the question not what, but who? If the natural explanations don’t seem to fit, the researchers have concluded in their paper that “an artificial source (human or non-human) must be considered.”
“These have been intriguing as an engineered signal, or evidence of extraterrestrial technology, since the first was discovered,” -Jill Tarter, former director of the SETI Institute in California. “I’m intrigued. Stay tuned.”
The search for extraterrestrial life continues to be a very hot topic, and the questions concerning “ET” are continuing to grow with the discovery of microbial life in space, as well as water – don’t forget about the discovery of many potential Earth-like planets. On top of that, we have a lot of evidence supporting the idea that intelligent extraterrestrial life has been visiting our planet for a very long time.
Calvin Parker tells his story of Pascagoula's famous UFO incident 40 years later
Calvin Parker tells his story of Pascagoula's famous UFO incident 40 years later
Charles Hickson of Gautier, Miss., famous for a claimed UFO abduction in 1973, has died in Ocean Springs at the age of 80. In this file photograph, Hickson is seen posing with a drawing depicting a UFO.
(Pat Sullivan)
PASCAGOULA, Mississippi -- Charles Hickson never regretted the notoriety that came his way after he told authorities he encountered an unidentified flying object and its occupants 40 years ago on the banks of the Pascagoula River. Until his death in 2011, Hickson told his story to anyone who would listen.
But Calvin Parker Jr., the other man present for one of the most high-profile UFO cases in American history, has never come to terms with what he still says was a visit with gray, crab-clawed creatures from somewhere else. He says the encounter on Oct. 11, 1973, turned his life upside down.
"This is something I really didn't want to happen," Parker told The Associated Press as the 40th anniversary of the encounter approached.
Parker was unnerved by initial crush of unwelcome attention, with newsmen and UFO enthusiasts overrunning Walker Shipyard, where he and Hickson worked. He tried to dodge the spotlight for decades, moving frequently before returning to Mississippi's Gulf Coast in recent years.
The incident made headlines, sparked a wave of UFO sightings nationwide and became one of the most widely examined cases on record. Skeptics ranged from the deputies who first interviewed the men to an author who sought to poke holes in the story, and Parker himself has had conflicting thoughts about whether he was visited by aliens or demons.
See the Mississippi Press' 1973 coverage of the incident:
Parker, now 58, was 18 when he went fishing with Hickson on a tranquil Thursday night after work.
As they dangled their lines without much luck, the two said a UFO with blue lights swooped down. They told of a zipping noise made by the object.
Hickson, then 42, said three creatures with leathery gray skin and crab-like claws -- he thought they were robots -- took them by the forearms and levitated them aboard the craft. He said something that looked like a large floating eye appeared to examine him.
Parker says he was conscious but paralyzed.
"They gave a thorough, I mean a thorough, examination to me just like any doctor would," he said.
And then they were back on the shore, where it all began. The UFO was gone and Parker said they tried to collect themselves. Hickson needed three shots of liquor from a bottle in his car to calm his nerves before deciding to report what happened.
At the Jackson County Sheriff's Department, deputies initially suspected both men were drunk. Then-Capt. Glenn Ryder, who still works for the sheriff's office, said he laughed at the report, but met with the men. Parker and Hickson stuck to their story.
After the formal interview, deputies left Hickson and Parker together in a room with a hidden tape recorder, hoping to catch them in a lie.
"Me and the other investigator got up and left to let them talk, to see if they were going to say, 'Well, we got them fooled,' but they didn't," Ryder said. "They were really concerned."
On the tape, Hickson tells Parker, "It scared me to death too, son. You can't get over it in a lifetime. Jesus Christ have mercy."
"I don't know what happened to them," Ryder said. "I wasn't there with them, but I know you don't fake fear, and they were fearful. They were fearful."
The next afternoon, the story was splashed across the front pages of newspapers in Pascagoula and Gulfport. Overnight, Pascagoula became a magnet for news reporters and UFO investigators.
Widespread interest in UFOs began in the 1940s with an incident at Roswell N.M., in which UFO enthusiasts believe the government got its hands on a crashed UFO and alien bodies. The government spent decades denying it.
In the 1960s, interest flared anew with a series of reports, including the purported alien abduction of New Hampshire couple Betty and Barney Hill in 1961. The widespread attention to the Pascagoula encounter set off a new round of reports.
In south Mississippi, hundreds of reports overwhelmed authorities in the two weeks after the Hickson-Parker encounter.
There were hoaxes and humor too. A Long Beach, Miss., taxi driver told police a being with pincers tapped on his window, a story he admitted days later was fake.
A Mobile, Ala., television station said it would record a UFO appearance predicted by a psychic between Mobile and nearby Pascagoula. Roughly 1,000 cars converged on the spot, where nothing happened.
An Ocean Springs alderman proposed an ordinance making it illegal to operate a UFO at more than twice the speed of light on U.S. 90, the coast's main drag. Mayor Tom Stennis voted against the ordinance, joking he didn't want to discourage tourism.
UFO skeptic Philip Klass believed Hickson and Parker's report was a hoax. In his book "UFOs Explained," he noted Hickson changed some details of his story and claimed a polygraph operator whose test Hickson passed wasn't up to the task. Parker later passed a lie detector test himself.
Hickson would go on to appear on talk shows, give lectures and interviews, and self-publish a book in 1983 titled "UFO Contact at Pascagoula." He reported three more encounters in 1974, and said the aliens communicated to him that they were peaceful.
"The only thing he wanted to do was let everybody know we were not alone," said Eddie Hickson, his son. "He didn't care if you believed him or not. If you wanted to listen, by gum, he'd tell you."
"He could never understand why he was chosen," the younger Hickson added. "But he never once told me that he wished it had never happened. Never."
Parker said the intrusions by curiosity seekers have become less frequent over the years, but have never really let up. "You don't never have no privacy," he said.
Parker married later in 1973 and eventually took oil industry and out-of-state construction jobs to escape the attention.
"By the time you get somewhere and they figure out who you were, I'd just go," he said. "I'd just go find another job somewhere."
Parker attended some UFO conventions, and was once hypnotized by Budd Hopkins, a noted UFO investigator. He briefly tried to capitalize on his story in 1993 by starting a Louisiana company called UFO Investigations where he and partners would produce television segments on the subject.
Parker moved to Moss Point in 2006 and in 2010 suffered a stroke that limited him physically. He's on disability aid now, but sometimes boats by the site of the encounter when he goes fishing. He said that just recently he met a woman at a gas station who already knew who he was.
"I'm always recognized," he said.
There's no historical marker on the river bank noting the encounter, and stores don't sell UFO souvenirs. But local people remember -- though often with skepticism and jokes.
For his part, Parker said he's had conflicting thoughts over the years about that night in 1973. At one point, he wasn't even sure the creatures were aliens. They might have been demons, he said.
"I'm a firm believer in God and where there's good, there's bad," Parker said.
In this Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 photo, Calvin Parker, Jr., stands in the area where he and fellow Mississippian Charles Hickson were allegedly abducted by aliens on Oct. 11,1973, on the banks of the Pascagoula River in Pascagoula Miss. The incident made headlines, sparked UFO sightings nationwide and became one of the most widely examined cases on record. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
In this Oct. 11, 1998 file photograph, Charles Hickson, of Pascagoula, Miss., stands where he and fellow Mississippian Calvin Parker, Jr. were allegedly abducted by aliens on Oct. 11,1973, on the banks of the Pascagoula River in Pascagoula Miss. The incident made headlines, sparked UFO sightings nationwide and became one of the most widely examined cases on record. Hickson co-wrote a book about the experience and spoke openly to reporters about the abduction, while Parker kept a low profile over the years. (AP Photo/Mississippi Press, William Colgin, File)
In this 1973 file photograph, Charles Hickson of Pascagoula, Miss., stands on the west bank of the Pascagoula River, close to the site where he claims he and Calvin Parker Jr. were abducted by aliens. (AP Photo/Mississippi Press, File)
FILE - In this Oct. 11, 2001, file photo, Charles Hickson reads a page from a book he co-wrote about UFOs in Gautier, Miss. When Hickson and Calvin Parker told the world in 1973 they were abducted by aliens while fishing on the Pascagoula River, few people believed them. Hickson, 80, died in Sept. 2011. (AP Photo/The Mississippi Press,
FILE - In this Oct. 18, 1973 file photograph taken in Gautier, Miss., Charles Hickson, left, and Calvin Parker Jr., of Pascagoula, Miss., recount the experience of their alleged abduction by aliens from the banks of the Pascagoula River where they were fishing. (AP Photo/Mississippi Press, Gary Holland, File)
In this Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013 photo, Calvin Parker, Jr., poses for a photograph at his home in Moss Point, Miss. Parker and fellow Mississippian Charles Hickson were allegedly abducted by aliens on Oct. 11,1973, on the banks of the Pascagoula River in Pascagoula Miss. The incident made headlines, sparked UFO sightings nationwide and became one of the most widely examined cases on record. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
Calvin Parker, Jr., stands in the area where he allegedly was abducted by a UFO along with fellow Mississippian Charles Hickson, on the banks of the Pascagoula River Oct. 11,1973, making international headlines, in Pascagoula Miss., Wednesday, Oct. 9, 2013. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
When you consider that age of the Universe – 13.8 billion years by our most recent counts – and that which is “observable” to us measures about 27.6 billion light years in diameter, you begin to wonder why we haven’t found signs of extra-terrestrial intelligence (ETI) beyond our Solar System. To paraphrase Enrico Fermi, the 20th century physicists who advanced the famous Fermi Paradox – “where the heck are all the aliens?”
Naturally, Fermi’s Paradox has attracted a lot of theoretical explanations over the years – which include ETI being very rare, humanity being early to the Universe, and the aliens being extinct! But a new study by a team of scientists from the Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) offers a different take on this age-old paradox. According to their study, the key to answering this question is to consider the possibility that the aliens are engaged in “aestivation”.
Essentially, aestivation is a prolonged state of torpor that organisms enter into during a particularly hot or dry period. Similar to what hibernating animals do during the winter, this state is designed to keep creatures alive until more favorable conditions emerge. And when applied to the cosmos, this concept could explain why one of the key things astronomers have been looking for – i.e. activity – has been lacking.
This is not the first time Sandberg has addressed questions arising out of the Fermi Paradox. In a previous study, he and Stuart Armstrong (also a research associate with the EHI and one of the co-authors on this study) extended the Fermi Paradox to look beyond our own galaxy, addressing how more advanced civilizations would feasibly be able to launch colonization projects with relative ease (and even travel between galaxies without difficulty).
In the end, they concluded that civilizations from millions of galaxies should have been able to reach us by now, which only serves to bring the Fermi Paradox into greater focus. If these early civilizations are around, why are they not visible to us? The reason for this, they claim in this new study, has to do with the thermodynamics of computation.
According to this basic rule, the cost of a certain amount of computation is proportional to the temperature it generates. For some time, astronomers and cosmologists have been aware that the Universe is steadily cooling down over the time. Not only is star formation in galaxies slowly dying out over the course of billions of years, but even the cosmic background radiation is becoming colder.
Artist’s conception of city lights on an alien planet. Credit: David A. Aguilar (CfA)
As such, it makes sense that ancient and advanced civilizations would want to wait for cooler conditions to prevail. Sandberg explained to Universe Today via email:
“The core idea is that if advanced civilizations mainly or solely care about computation, then it is rational for them to wait until the Universe is much older than now. The reason is that the energy cost (which will eventually limit how much computation you can do) is proportional to temperature, and this means that the far future is vastly more hospitable than the hot present. If this were true, we have a nice explanation for the apparent absence of big old civilizations. It would also lead to observable consequences: a reduction in processes that waste resources they would want in the late eras.”
Timing is a key feature to this hypothesis. Much like the theory that humanity may have arrived early to the Universe, this theory states that the lack of detection has to do with species being in different places in their biological/technological evolution. In this case, the aestivation period of early civilizations has coincided with the subsequent rise of humanity as an space-faring and technologically-adept species.
Herein lies another reason why ancient civilizations might want to take a cosmic nap. Given how long life needs in order to emerge – humanity took roughly 4.5 billion years to get to where it is today – then it stands to reason that ancient civilizations might want to skip ahead a few eons in order to let new races emerge.
Ever since it was first announced in 2015, there has been speculation as to what could account for the dimming of KIC 8462852.
Credit: SentientDevelopments.com
“There is an entropy cost to irreversible logical operations, including error correction,” said Sanders. “So unless there is some magical energy source or entropy sink, if you want to do as much computation as possible you should wait until the cosmic background radiation levels off. In addition, civilizations may want to go to the future if they want to meet other, independently evolved civilizations. If intelligence is rare in time and space but aestivates to the far future, then it will meet there.”
Of course, the aestiation hypothesis (much like the Drake Equation and the Fermi Paradox) is based on a few assumptions about what ETI would be capable of. These include:
There are civilizations that mature much earlier than humanity.
These civilizations can expand over sizeable volumes, gaining power over their contents.
These civilizations have solved their coordination problems.
A civilization can retain control over its volume against other civilizations.
The fraction of mature civilizations that aestivate is non-zero
Aestivation is largely invisible.
In other words, the hypothesis assumes the existence of civilizations that are more advanced than humanity which is based on the notion that they have had billions of years to develop elsewhere in the Universe. These civilizations would be higher on the Kardashev Scale (between Level II and III) by now, meaning that they had evolved to the point where they could harness the energy of entire star systems and perhaps even galaxies.
Also, it assumes that these civilizations would have become space-faring races that had expanded to occupy parts of the cosmos that lie well beyond their own star systems. Ultimately, those civilizations that have chosen to become dormant would therefore be invisible to us since they are not currently traveling between stars and galaxies, smashing up planets to create megastructures, or consuming entire stars for fuel.
You know, the kind of stuff we think mega-civilizations would do. Which naturally raises the question, how might we be able to detect such civilizations at rest? To this, Sandberg has a few possible suggestions, ones which ETI-hunters may want to heed:
“Look for galaxies that either move out of the way of galaxy collisions or towards big clusters by ejecting mass or energy in one direction, or have an unusually low number of heavy blue-white stars, or otherwise avoid losing gas to interstellar space. Or, try launching a self-replicating space probe to pave the universe and see if somebody stops you.”
As with all things having to do with aliens and ETI, a measure of guess-work is required here. And some would naturally argue that it is also possible that advanced civilizations are not subject to the same limitations we humans are, which would limit our ability to speculate here. In the end, we humans are required to theorize about what we don’t know based on what we do – aka. the “low-hanging fruit” approach.
The findings reported in the study were also the subject of a talk that took place at the second annual meeting of the UK SETI Research Network (UKSRN), which took place on September 11th and 12th, 2014, at Birkbeck College in London.
Ball lightning has been blamed for more UFO sightings than weather balloons and for more ghost sightings than reflections. Part of the problem is that, like UFOs and ghosts, no one can really explain ball lightning either. That may change with a new theory from a Chinese scientist that could explain how these sometimes tiny luminous balls form and how they can seemingly pass through walls to float inside houses and even airplanes.
While called “lightning” because it generally appears during thunderstorms, ball lightning doesn’t act like conventional lightning. It’s spherical, often small and is visible longer than a lightning bolt. Photographs of it are rare, attempts to recreate it in a lab are futile and stories about sightings can border on the unbelievable.
An ‘amazing’ recreation of ball lightning appearing in a room
Enter H.C. Wu, a researcher at the Institute for Fusion Theory and Simulation (IFTS) and Department of Physics at China’s Zhejiang University. In his paper published recently in Scientific Reports, he claims to successfully explain many of the reported but unsubstantiated characteristics of ball lightning.
Wu’s theorizes that ball lightning begins when a bolt of conventional lightning hits the ground or an object and accelerates electrons, causing them to release microwave radiation. This radiation then charges the air around it, forming a “spherical plasma bubble” that envelops and traps the radiation. That spherical plasma bubble is ball lightning.
Ball lightning or UFO?
This may explain outdoor ball lighting, but what about the luminescent floating orbs reportedly seen indoors and in airplane cabins? Wu claims that the electrons are moving at nearly the speed of light, which allows them to pass through walls and the metal skin of planes. Really?
He also postulates that the microwave radiation produces chemicals that cause ball lightning’s reportedly foul smell (plausible) and they give it the explosive powers often reported just prior to the smell (like an egg in a microwave?).
Ball lightning, orb or something else?
Wu’s study proposes a number of ways ball lightning might be created in a lab but – in case any kids with access to electricity and microwaves read Scientific Reports – warns that ball lightning is “an alarm signal of the existence of ultrastrong microwaves and abundantly hazardous electrons near the ground or aircraft.”
Is this a sufficient explanation for ball lightning? Does it clear up any UFO, glowing orb or ghost sightings for you?
Is there a connection between a strange and controversial cattle-mutilation event that occurred in New Mexico in June 1976, and the equally controversial UFO incident that went down in Rendlesham Forest, Suffolk, England in December 1980? Let’s take a look. We’ll begin with the 1976 affair. From 1975 onward, Police Officer Gabe Valdez, of Espanola, New Mexico, investigated multiple UFO/animal mutilation cases in and around Rio Arriba County, NM. In fact, the total was twenty-eight. One of the most bizarre events occurred in June 1976, as Valdez’s files demonstrate:
“Investigations around the area revealed that a suspected aircraft of some type had landed twice, leaving three pod marks positioned in a triangular shape. The diameter of each pod was 14 inches. Emanating from the two landings were smaller triangular shaped tripods 28 inches and 4 inches in diameter. Investigation at the scene showed that these small tripods had followed the cow for approximately 600 feet. Tracks of the cow showed where she had struggled and fallen. The small tripod tracks were all around the cow. Other evidence showed that grass around the tripods, as they followed the cow, had been scorched. Also a yellow oily substance was located in two places under the small tripods. This substance was submitted to the State Police Lab. The Lab was unable to detect the content of the substance.”
Valdez continued:
“A sample of the substance was submitted to a private lab and they were unable to analyze the substance due to the fact that it disappeared or disintegrated. Skin samples were analyzed by the State Police Lab and the Medical Examiner’s Office. It was reported that the skin had been cut with a sharp instrument.”
Seventy-two hours later, Valdez liaised with Dr. Howard Burgess, of the New Mexico-based Sandia Laboratories, with a view to having the area checked for radiation. It was a wise move. The radiation level was double that which could normally be expected.
Valdez’s conclusions on this issue:
“It is the opinion of this writer that radiation findings are deliberately being left at the scene to confuse investigators.”
The case was not over, however. Whatever, or whoever, was responsible for the mutilation made a return visit. Once again, we need to take a look at the official files on the affair. In Valdez’s own words: “There was also evidence that the tripod marks had returned and removed the left ear. Tripod marks were found over Mr. Gomez’s tire tracks of his original visit. The left ear was intact when Mr. Gomez first found the cow. The cow had a 3-month-old calf which has not been located since the incident. This appears strange since a small calf normally stays around the mother even though the cow is dead.”
Now, let’s move on to Rendlesham Forest and December 1980. The Rendlesham affair is a case which saw numerous military personnel from the twin-military U.K. Royal Air Force bases of Bentwaters and Woodbridge experiencing profound UFO activity in the nearby East coast woods, between December 26 and 28. Without doubt, the most widely accepted scenario within the UFO research community is that extraterrestrials landed/manifested in those dark woods in late December. There is talk of a small, intelligently controlled vehicle moving through the trees, of lights beaming down to a weapons-storage area in the vicinity, of bizarre activity in the woods, and of strange, dwarfish entities seen at close quarters. There is even talk of local prisons being primed for evacuation at some point between December 26 and 28, 1980.
On January 13, 1981, Deputy Base Commander Colonel Charles Halt prepared a memo on the situation for the attention of the British Ministry of Defense. It began as follows: “Early in the morning of 27 Dec 80 (approximately 0300L) two USAF security police patrolmen saw unusual lights outside the back gate at RAF Woodbridge. Thinking an aircraft might have crashed or been forced down, they called for permission to go outside the gate to investigate. The individuals reported seeing a strange glowing object in the forest. The object was described as being metallic in appearance and triangular in shape, approximately two to three meters across the base and approximately two meters high. It illuminated the entire forest with a white light. The object itself had a pulsing red light on top and a bank(s) of blue lights underneath. The object was hovering or on legs. As the patrolmen approached the object it maneuvered through the trees and disappeared. At this time the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy. The object was briefly sighted approximately an hour later near the back gate.”
Halt had more to say: “The next day, three depressions 1 1/2″ deep and 7″ in diameter were found where the object had been sighted on the ground. The following night (29 Dec 80) the area was checked for radiation. Beta/Gamma readings of 0.1 milliroentgens were recorded with peak readings in the three depressions and near the center of the triangle formed by the three depressions. A nearby tree had moderate (0.05 – 0.07) readings on the side of the tree facing towards the three depressions.”
And, finally, there was this from Colonel Halt: “Later in the night a red sun-like object was seen through the trees. It moved about and pulsed. At one point it appeared to throw off glowing particles and then broke into five separate white objects and disappeared. Immediately thereafter, three star like objects were noticed in the sky, two objects to the north and one to the south, all of which were about 10 degrees off of the horizon. The objects moved rapidly in sharp, angular movements and displayed red, green and blue lights. The objects to the north appeared to be elliptical through 8-10 power lens. They then turned to full circles. The objects in the north remained in the sky for an hour or more. The object to the south was visible for two to three hours and beamed down a stream of light from time to time. Numerous individuals, including the undersigned, witnessed the activities in paragraphs 2 and 3.”
Now, let’s take a look at the similarities between the two cases, which were roughly four-and-a-half years apart:
(A) In the New Mexican case, the unidentified object left behind “…three pod marks positioned in a triangular shape.” At Rendlesham Forest, “…three depressions 1 1/2″ deep and 7″ in diameter were found where the object had been sighted on the ground.”
(B) The radiation levels at the scene of the mute were twice the level of what could be called normal. In Rendlesham Forest, the radiation level was elevated.
(C) Officer Valdez reported that at the Rio Arriba farm a cow had been mutilated and its calf was missing. At the site of the Rendlesham incident, “…the animals on a nearby farm went into a frenzy.”
Of course, the connections are without doubt tenuous. But, they are also highly intriguing…
If there was one group of people who you’d think would have a good idea if space aliens existed or not, it would be astronauts. You’d probably think that most of them believe in aliens and you’d probably be right, even if they don’t admit it publicly. The list of out-of-the-NASA-closet alien believers just grew by one after former astronaut Leroy Chiao spoke this week to students at the University of Wollongong in New South Wales, Australia, and had this to say:
I think there’s all kinds of life out there, including intelligent life, but the reason we haven’t found each other is because of vast distances.
Dr. Leroy Chiao on the ISS
Dr. Chiao has a Ph.D. in chemical engineering and became an astronaut in July 1991. He’s spent a total of 230 days in space on four separate missions, including his last one in 2004-5 as commander of Expedition 10 on the International Space Station. While he believes there’s life on planets other than Earth, he showed where his heart is on that mission by becoming the first person to vote in a US presidential election while in space. What political party do you think an astronaut who believes in ETs belongs to?
I don’t think anyone flies into space without some form of fundamental introspection about what life is about. For me, I was surprised how much more beautiful it is than what the pictures show. It looks very peaceful and nice, and intellectually I knew there was war, famine and conflict down there and that dichotomy was hard to reconcile. It makes you stop and think, and it gave me that perspective of what’s important in life.
That didn’t help much. This comment may be a little more revealing:
I believe that at some point, life on Earth will die out, either from natural causes, or from our own doing.
Those who follow ufology know that the late astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth person on the moon, believed not only in UFOs and aliens but in government cover-ups of information about them. Gordon Cooper, an original Mercury astronaut, claimed he witnessed UFOs in 1951 over Germany and saw flying saucers at a secret air base. Deke Slayton, an astronaut and director of flight crew operations, says he also saw a “saucer” UFO in 1951 and Alan Bean, another of the 12 moonwalkers, believes aliens are out there but we haven’t been contacted yet due to the great travel distances required.
Deke Slayton
With all of those high-level supporters in the astronaut field of the existence of alien life somewhere in the universe, does this exclusive group have any non-believers? Chris Hadfield, the first Canadian to walk in space and a commander of the ISS like Dr. Chiao, ansered that question in an interview:
I don’t know of any astronauts who think we’re alone in the universe.
Well, that settles it. Now, who do you think Dr. Chiao voted for in the 2004 presidential election?
If its first quarter is anything to go by, 2016 may be shaping up historically as the 1491 of space discovery. The month preceding Valentine's Day alone provided what would once have been a year's worth of cosmic news. Blue Origin, the aerospace company owned by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, took one giant leap toward a new Age of Discovery by relaunching and landing a rocket that had already made a round-trip journey through the stratosphere – a revolutionary moment in private space exploration. A pair of researchers kicked off a frenzied planet hunt by demonstrating that a massive, heretofore undetected planet could be lurking on the outer edge of our solar system. Cosmologist Stephen Hawking suggested that unforeseen effects of rapid scientific progress might, paradoxically, cause the extinction of life on Earth in the next thousand years or so, adding, "By that time, we should have spread out into space, and to other stars, so a disaster on Earth would not mean the end of the human race." And scientists announced they'd detected gravitational waves, evidence of a billion-year-old collision between black holes, thus confirming the final and most obscure principle of Einstein's theory of relativity – and opening a window that may soon offer a glimpse of the universe's very creation.
Meanwhile, in a restricted swath of Appalachia where cell service and Wi-Fi are prohibited to minimize radio interference, a team of astrophysicists and programmers from UC-Berkeley inaugurated a new interstellar exploration at the Robert C. Byrd telescope in Green Bank, West Virginia. Titled Breakthrough Listen, this 10-year, $100 million project will comprise what Andrew Siemion, director of Berkeley's SETI Research Center, called "the most sensitive, comprehensive and advanced search for advanced intelligent life on other worlds ever performed." (SETI stands for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.) The goal is to detect some evidence of distant technology, such as radio communication or a concentrated burst of energy. If it succeeds, Breakthrough Listen will answer an existential and philosophical question that humankind has pondered for millennia: Are we alone in the universe?
Self-deprecation is an essential job requirement for those who work in a field of scientific inquiry frequently associated with flying saucers and requests to be taken to one's leader; SETI folks tend to use the terms "E.T." and "little green men" to describe the hypothetical advanced life-forms that might be capable of sending an identifiable signal through space. "I get into a lot of conversations at parties about Ancient Aliens and the pyramids," Siemion says with resignation. He is 35, young for a SETI field that previously peaked in the era between Carl Sagan's Cosmos and the mothballing of NASA's own SETI program due to budget cuts in 1993. Arriving for lunch at a meticulously rustic Berkeley locavore restaurant in a full-zip fleece with a backpack over one shoulder, Siemion could pass for an undergraduate on the nearby campus were it not for his clean-shaven head.
What separates the quest to find extraterrestrial intelligence from X-Files conspiracy theories is statistics, specifically the law of large numbers. Scientists now estimate that there are at least 200 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy, and perhaps 100 billion galaxies in the universe. Fifty billion planets in our galaxy alone may be situated in what astrophysicists call the "Goldilocks zone," a region neither too hot nor too cold to host life, and thus potentially habitable. Last year, astronomers found evidence of briny water on Mars and located a distant exoplanet – dubbed Kepler 452b – so similar to Earth that some say the two could be cousins. "The latest estimates are that roughly one in 10 stars has a planet on which biology could survive," says Seth Shostak, senior astronomer at the nonprofit SETI Institute. "Even if only one in a million worlds is good enough to develop intelligent life, there are a trillion planets in the galaxy. Which would mean a million worlds with intelligent life."
Breakthrough Listen is funded by soft-spoken Russian venture capitalist Yuri Milner (named after Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space). Like many SETI fanatics, Milner read Sagan's Intelligent Life in the Universe as a boy. After pursuing a Ph.D. in physics, Milner later made a fortune investing in companies such as Facebook. As middle-aged rich guys tend to do, Milner, 54, is considering his legacy; along with fellow Silicon Valley entrepreneurs including Mark Zuckerberg and Sergey Brin, he founded the Breakthrough Prizes, which bestow seven-figure awards on leading scientists and mathematicians. Breakthrough Listen is a quest to achieve what Milner has called a "low-probability but high-impact event." A scientific unicorn.
"Either way, the answer is interesting," says Dan Werthimer, who as Berkeley SETI's chief scientist complements Siemion's youthful confidence with an optimism undimmed by 40 years of fruitless alien-hunting. (A third member of the Berkeley SETI team, noted exoplanet hunter Geoffrey Marcy, resigned from the university and Breakthrough Listen in October following a sexual-harassment scandal. Breakthrough Prize chairman Pete Worden says they are now "in touch and getting his scientific opinions.") "If we find E.T. it means the universe is teeming with life," Werthimer says. "But if we find we're alone, then we'd really better take care of the precious life on this planet."
The new Space Race is being driven largely by billionaires like Milner who grew up staring at the stars before building terrestrial-tech fortunes. Cost-efficient travel to the stratosphere and beyond, which just a generation ago was the failed dream of the $200 billion Space Shuttle program, is now a reality thanks to fierce competition among companies like Blue Origin and Elon Musk's SpaceX. (SpaceX, which builds rockets much more powerful than its rival's, stuck the landing of a reusable vehicle in December.) Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic and its less-flashy rival XCOR are taking reservations on their first suborbital tourism flights. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen – who prior to Milner was SETI's best-known benefactor – hopes to build the world's largest airplane, a mothership designed to launch rockets from 30,000 feet.
Every space nerd's dream destination, of course, is Mars. NASA hopes to get a team there in the 2030s. Musk, a vocal Mars obsessive whose SpaceX has partnered with NASA on various projects, has vowed not to take his company public until it lands a craft on the Red Planet. The controversial Mars One project, headquartered in the Netherlands, has claimed that more than 200,000 hopefuls applied for its permanent, one-way trip, with touchdown projected for 2027.
"Governments tend not to do speculative stuff, and long-term space commitments are expensive," says Worden, former head of NASA's Ames Research Center, who announced he was stepping down last February, saying he wanted "to pursue some long-held dreams in the private sector." Shortly thereafter, Milner introduced him as the new chairman of the Breakthrough Prize Foundation, which oversees Breakthrough Listen. Shaking the ice in his plastic cup at the Tee Minus One Bar & Grill on the Moffett Field air base near Mountain View, California, dressed in an old blue NASA work shirt, Worden explains why he thinks venture capitalists will lead future exploration in space. "People always ask why Silicon Valley is different," he says. "The best answer I've heard is that this is a place where it's all right to fail. Not only is it right, it's expected."
Worden is both a former astronomy professor and a retired Air Force general. He says there are two sides to the question of life in the universe, one academic and one strategic. First, what else is out there? "What is life, how did it originate, where else is it and what's its future?" he asks. "What's the origin and structure of the universe? How did it begin? These have been the fundamental questions since the Scientific Revolution began 500, 600 years ago."
The less-philosophical side of the question is when Earthlings will launch their offensive into space. "Whether it's going to happen in 2030 or 2050 or 2080, I don't know," Worden says. "But this is the century when humanity moves into the galaxy."
That exodus may end up recalling old issues of Omni magazine more than it does the original Apollo missions. NASA's current estimate is that the voyage to Mars could take up to a year, each way, requiring many times the food, water and fuel used for three-day trips to the moon. Twenty-five years ago, the tab for a Mars mission was estimated at $400 billion. If the payloads can be drastically reduced, however, costs will also shrink.
One technology Worden sees as having the potential to take us to the stars – "'us' being what we become," he says – is artificial intelligence. "You send some sort of essence of yourself, like an avatar," he says. "It would be settling the solar system and beyond with machines." Another popular scenario among futurists imagines the creation of von Neumann probes: self-replicating machines that travel to distant worlds, locate the ingredients needed to create more advanced copies of themselves, and repeat the process as they continue deeper into space. Worden sees promise in synthetic biology, transforming the raw materials of distant worlds into physical necessities that would otherwise need to be transported to support a crew, such as food and shelter. "Then all I need to transmit between worlds is information, and information travels at the speed of light," he says.
Like deep-space travel, SETI work has until now been largely speculative; one certainty is that no one has ever found any concrete evidence of extraterrestrial life. Like the universe itself, the list of potential glitches is infinite. Assuming that distant civilizations exist, they could have a head start of millions of years, in which case an interstellar missive may have gone undetected by Neanderthals. E.T. might already be here, operating under a Prime Directive, as the crew of the Enterprise did, observing us but forbidden to interfere. Whistle-blower Edward Snowden has suggested that aliens could even be using advanced encryption that disguises their signals, rendering them "indistinguishable to us from cosmic microwave background radiation."
Echoing Hawking's warning, Musk sees a potential dark side in this cosmic silence. "If you look at our own current technology level, something strange has to happen to civilizations, and I mean strange in a bad way," Musk said in a recent interview with Aeon. There may be a troubling reason why in the 13.8 billion years since the Big Bang, no aliens have contacted us: The same technological leaps that will allow human beings to explore the galaxy, such as self-upgrading AI, are the genie that betrays its master once released from the bottle. "It could be there are a lot of dead, one-planet civilizations," Musk added.
Worden has a more optimistic explanation. "The most likely answer is that we haven't looked very hard," he says.
Milner's Breakthrough Listen money will be spent on three things: leasing dedicated observation time at radio telescopes in West Virginia and Australia, as well as at an optical telescope at the University of California's Lick Observatory; hiring the sorts of smart young scientists who until very recently would have been scared off from SETI because the field's lack of funding equaled academic career suicide; and, perhaps most important, on building new technology to process the tsunami of new data that will be rolling in.
That responsibility will fall largely to Berkeley's Werthimer. At 61, he is the sort of academic whom eager incoming freshmen expect to find on campus but rarely do: neatly bearded, wildly enthusiastic, respected in his field, gifted at explaining complicated ideas. He proudly wears his sci-fi nerdiness not only on his sleeve but also under it; the hands of his live long and prosper wristwatch rotate around the face of Mr. Spock. His role in the SETI world, transposed to the James Bond canon, would be roughly one part M and three parts Q. "I try to figure out if there's some interesting problem in astronomy that I can solve by building some new gadget, because I know how to build gadgets," Werthimer says. His team's workshop inside Campbell Hall, Berkeley's astronomy building, looks like the repair shop of a high-end home-theater retailer; wood shelves are lined with stacks of memory boards and other electronic components.
For years, Werthimer has run the SETI@home project, a peer-to-peer network that dates back to the Napster era. Raw observational data collected in the background during other astronomers' stargazing is sent to the home computers of millions of volunteers, where it is processed when those machines go into sleep mode, and then sent back to Berkeley. The trade-off for hitchhiking a free ride during others' searches is that Werthimer and his team rarely had a say in deciding where to point the telescope. Breakthrough Listen puts them in the driver's seat with 10 years' worth of gas money.
About 60 years ago, scientists realized that since the laws of physics seemed to apply throughout the universe, the varieties of concentrated electromagnetic radiation that humans have found to be excellent modes of communication – such as waves used for AM/FM transmission – would also work to send messages across the galaxy. Any intelligent life-form would, presumably, learn to take advantage of the many practical uses of this radiation. Powerful radio telescopes might be able to eavesdrop on what physicists call "leakage," a distant civilization's technological artifacts, akin to our radar and broadcast-TV waves that have escaped into space. "Earth sends off all these radio signals omnidirectionally, by accident," Werthimer says. By now, "I Love Lucy has gone past thousands of stars."
A more tantalizing possibility is that some faraway entity has sent a deliberate signal to initiate contact with Earth. "We've had [breathable] oxygen in our atmosphere for 500 million years," Werthimer says. "Maybe they've seen that and figured there might be life on this planet." Some in the SETI field believe that the closest any researcher has come to discovering such a transmission was a powerful 72-second signal, detected at an Ohio State observatory in 1977, that appeared to be coming from the constellation Sagittarius. Despite numerous attempts, no one has been able to observe it again. An intergalactic "friend request" beamed through the cosmos could still be out there, just waiting to be accepted.
Breakthrough listen will be gathering as much SETI data in a day as was previously possible to collect in a year, using its expanded telescope access to scan at least five times more of the radio spectrum a hundred times faster than before and sucking in the equivalent of 75 Blu-ray movies per second.
"What we do with radio SETI is a little like those shows about panning for gold on the Discovery Channel," Siemion says. "We build this gigantic thing that sucks in data, and we sift it and sift it and sift it." The optical telescope at Lick Observatory works in a similar manner, breaking down the light it collects from afar to search for evidence of an artificial compressed energy source such as a laser. If E.T. had illuminated a 100-watt bulb on a planet orbiting Alpha Centauri, 25 trillion miles away, the optical telescope is capable of spotting it and funneling that information into Breakthrough Listen's giant Big Data sieve.
Should an interesting nugget turn up from far away, a blip on a screen or a spike in a curve will trigger an alert on someone's computer in Berkeley – hey, take a look at this. Any such phenomenon will be examined "very, very, very closely," Siemion says – and then rechecked, Werthimer adds, to make sure there isn't a bug in the software or a grad student pulling a prank. (When astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the metronomic spinning stars now known as pulsars in 1967, the first signal was briefly nicknamed LGM-1, in case its source was a Little Green Man.) Astronomers at other telescopes will be asked to train their equipment on the coordinates to determine that the anomaly cannot be explained as a natural phenomenon. By the end of 2016, that group might include the Chinese, who are currently completing a telescope that will dwarf anything now in use by Breakthrough Listen.
As Werthimer fired up the system in West Virginia for the first time, in January, they even had a suspect to investigate. Last year, researchers noticed that the light from a distant star, KIC 8462852, seemed to be dimming according to an irregular pattern. The source is probably something natural – a comet is one likely possibility – but there's a slim chance it could be evidence of far-off technology. Some have hypothesized the randomness is caused by a massive framework built by aliens to harness solar power. says Breakthrough's observations of the abnormality thus far have been inconclusive. "But if I had to guess," he says, "I'd say it was a swarm of dust clouds."
When Christopher Columbus sailed for India in 1492, he brought along an interpreter whose skills were a poor match for the Taino natives they unexpectedly encountered in the Caribbean. The Breakthrough Listen scientists like to compare themselves to the Columbus expedition and its implied outcome – a well-financed team of explorers sets off on a journey that rewrites history – but they plan to be better prepared. In tandem with Breakthrough Listen, Milner has set aside $1 million in prize money to formulate digital messages that might be sent to a newly discovered civilization.
The problem of communicating may be largely academic, due to the distances involved; a transmission beamed to KIC 8462852, for example, would take almost 1,500 years to arrive. A more hopeful scenario is that Breakthrough Listen discovers a signal targeted at Earth that shows potential to be deciphered. Since the sender may not possess any of the five senses humans use to perceive the world – may not even be carbon-based, as all life on Earth is – the decryption process would almost certainly require some conceptual thinking.
Douglas Vakoch, a clinical psychologist who is president of METI International (the M stands for "messaging"), says that, ideally, any signal we receive would contain information that might be universal across civilizations, such as basic mathematics. (A string of prime numbers is the Golden Fleece of hypothetical alien transmissions.) From there, we might gain an understanding of "their scientific description of the world" and even perhaps their culture. Somewhat less exciting would be an experience familiar to archaeologists, who by compiling fragmentary evidence "are able to piece some things together but aren't able to reconstruct the full world of this civilization," Vakoch says. Most likely, we'll have to settle for "some vague understanding of what some part of their message refers to."
Even such a vague understanding is a long shot. Just before announcing the project amid several eminences of astrophysics – including Hawking – in London last summer, Milner polled his team. Their educated guess was that Breakthrough Listen had a one percent chance of success. Facing such odds, wouldn't it make more sense to wait until humans have built telescopes on Mars and are sending cyborg probes into the far depths of the Milky Way?
"You could've told Christopher Columbus, 'You'll probably make it to India, just wait 500 years for airplanes,'" Werthimer says, fiddling with his Star Trek wristwatch. "We're never going to answer these questions with paper and pencil. The only way to figure it out is to look.
But now Professor Antonio Paris from the St Petersburg College in Florida believes he's solved the mystery.
"I have always been fascinated with astronomy, space and - more importantly - whether there is life in the universe," he told the Sunday Times .
"After 40 years, the Wow signal was a cold case I wanted to reopen.
"Here we have a crime scene with a date and time, and a little description of the subject."
(Photo: Getty)
According to Professor Paris, the signal came from the hydrogen cloud created by two comets as they passed by Earth.
Using celestial records, he found that these two comets were passing by our planet on August 15, 1977 - the day the "Wow!" signal was recorded. Of course, at the time, there was no knowledge that these comets even existed.
To make absolutely sure, Professor Paris waited until the comets were due to pass again then pointed some radio telescopes in their direction. He recorded the same results as Ehman did and has had his research accepted into the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences.
It'll now be up to other astronomers to disprove his theory.
And Professor Paris is almost hoping they do so.
"There's still a bit inside of me that hopes it was aliens," he said.
For various reasons, UFO sightings often occur in sprees or clusters. Whether that reason is an actual increase of anomalous aerial activity, the work of copycat hoaxers, or psychological suggestion is often up for debate. Over the last several weeks in Idaho, a string of similar-sounding UFO sightings were reported to NUFORC, the National UFO Reporting Center. All of the eyewitnesses in each case reported seeing odd lights in the sky, sometimes moving strangely. After receiving numerous calls about unexplained lights, southern Idaho news station KMVT now reports that these lights are likely the work of Google. Well, sort of Google.
Google is testing new balloon technology above Idaho.
According to a recent news statement, the lights are balloons being tested as part of Project Loon, the initiative which aspires to offer “balloon powered internet for everyone” by flying wi-fi-beaming balloons into rural or undeveloped areas. Loon is currently led by X, a branch of Google’s secretive R&D wing formerly known as Google X.
A Loon craft being tested in simulated high-altitude conditions.
Loon has been testing their balloons in Idaho since last year, about the same time NUFORC began receiving large numbers of reports of lights above Idaho. The Loon balloons currently being tested in Idaho can be tracked on flight radar here and here.Compare the images of their balloons with this alleged UFO sighting filmed last year:
In Loon’s promotional images, the craft do appear quite otherworldly. Each Loon balloon has a bulbous, illuminated orb with a long, wispy tail trailing underneath it containing solar panels, antennae, and a host of electronics.
Google wants Loon to be a “network of balloons traveling on the edge of space, designed to extend Internet connectivity to people in rural and remote areas worldwide.”
One of the NUFORC reports, in particular, seems to describe one of the same jellyfish-like vehicles Google Loon is testing as it reacts to shifting winds:
Saw a bright light going really fast from the west to the east. The craft stopped abruptly and started coming back from west to east. It then stopped again and was zig zagging all over. The lights would get really bright then dim. We could almost see a tail of some sort coming from behind or around it.
Some of the details of the NUFORC reports don’t seem to match up to images or descriptions of Google Loon balloons, however, although there are plenty of reasons why eyewitness reports can become tainted with misperceptions or why illuminated wi-fi balloons could appear from the ground to be something quite different entirely.
July 2 of this year will mark the 20th anniversary of the release of the movie Men in Black, which starred Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Linda Fiorentino, and Rip Torn. It was an incredibly successful movie that pulled in close to $600 Million in box-office takings. Men in Black II surfaced in 2002 and made a more than respectable profit, and the third movie in the series – Men in Black 3 – did even better, with box-office figures reaching more than $620 Million. Based on Lowell Cunningham’s comic book series, Men in Black, the movies most definitely brought the MIB of UFO lore to the attention of millions of people – and all around the world. The movies did something else, too: they cemented in the minds of most people the image that the MIB are the operatives of a highly secret agency which is buried deep within the heart of the U.S. Government. The reality, however, is very different.
Of course, the three Men in Black movies are meant purely as entertainment for the whole family – which they certainly are. But, when it comes to the real Men in Black, matters are much darker. In fact, way darker. And, I’m not talking about the color of the suits. It’s ironic that the movies portrayed the Men in Black as what we might term “ufological 007’s,” as the “secret agent” angle is actually the most unlikely explanation for the MIB.
As a quick aside, I well remember that when the first Men in Black movie hit the cinemas, certain pompous ufologists complained and moaned that Hollywood’s MIB were far different from the Men in Black of the real world. Give me a break and lighten up. Develop a sense of humor and don’t be so defensive: the movies are fiction and fun. And that’s all they are meant to be. And, there is nothing wrong with that. With that said, let’s now get back to the MIB of fact, rather than of fiction.
“Men” is probably not the best or most accurate way to describe the strange creatures that are known as the MIB. Imagine a pale-faced or “olive”-faced character whose skin looks like plastic-meets-Botox. On top of that, there are the odd, dark wigs that the Men in Black are described as so often wearing. Bulging, staring eyes are often reported. Mumbled words, near-robotic tones, and an almost “programmed”-like nature are typical of the gruesome MIB, too. In some cases, the Men in Black are short in the extreme – often around only about five-feet in height. In contrast, however, there are those MIB who are reported to be in excess of six-and-a-half feet in height.
An ability to control the minds of their victims is something that pops up a lot in MIB cases. No, we’re not talking about the “Neuralyzers” of the MIB movies. It’s more akin to a strange form of hypnosis. And, don’t get too close to the MIB. In fact, stay away from them whenever and wherever possible. Why? Because the history of MIB encounters reveals more than a few cases in which the Men in Black appear to have “supernaturally infected” those they targeted. As weird and menacing as it may sound, accounts of people falling sick, feeling ill, and developing serious diseases in the aftermath of encountering the MIB are not at all uncommon.
Then, there are the paranormal overtones to the mystery, such as witnesses experiencing strange odors in the home after the MIB have left for pastures and victims new. Sulfur, brimstone, and “rotten eggs,” are typically the odors reported. Users of Ouija-boards talk about encounters with the MIB, typically of the “Shadow Person”/“Hat Man” variety. And let’s not forget the cars of the MIB. In the movies, they are high-tech vehicles that can outperform just about anything and everything else on the road. And, of course, they are black in color. In our world, the “Cars in Black” are no less strange. For example, they are eternally and paradoxically old, but also look brand new. 1950s-era Cadillac cars are a favorite of the MIB. Eyewitnesses describe the cars vanishing before their eyes – becoming invisible, winking out of existence, and even taking to the skies!
Unlike the characters portrayed by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, the real MIB have far more than just UFOs on their minds. Seen Bigfoot? Maybe a lake-monster? If you have, chances are that you just might, one day, incur the wrath of the Men in Black. Pennsylvania-based researcher/author Stan Gordon has uncovered a number of Bigfoot-MIB cases. There are several reports of MIB roaming around Loch Ness, Scotland. And, I don’t have to tell you what lurks in its darkened depths.
As all of the above collectively shows – and although we certainly have the three movies to thank for elevating the MIB phenomenon to stratospheric levels – there are big differences between Hollywood’s Men in Black and those who have plunged more than a few people into states of terror and paranoia. No doubt, when the 20th anniversary of the release of Men in Black arrives in just a few weeks from now, we’ll see and hear much more about the MIB…
A strange-shaped light hovering over a hill in Somerset is the latest bizarre sighting that sparked UFO theories.
The strange event took place near Britain’s UFO capital that has been the popular area on UFO sightings for more than 40 years. The streak of light adds to the list of shimmering sightings and crop circles that residents have seen over the past few decades.
A resident from Frome recorded the video showing streaks of light above nearby Cley Hill, which is just 2 miles from UFO town Warminster. A strange light appears to move in circular motions in the night sky. The resident who took the video did not discount the possibility that it was a drone with a unique flame effect tail or something. The witness also revealed that the mysterious light had been spotted a few times locally.
The nearby town of Warminster has been described as Britain’s UFO capital after strange phenomena first encountered in the mid-1960s. A detonation noise rocked houses on August 17, 1965, followed by a large orange flame crackling and hissing in the sky.
Strange noises were heard in the town, and the strange shimmering light was seen in the vicinity. The phenomena were eventually called the Warminster Thing, which later followed by reports of inexplicable things in the sky decades later.
Alien Hunter In Houston Claims To Have Physical Evidence Of Aliens In The Universe
Alien Hunter In Houston Claims To Have Physical Evidence Of Aliens In The Universe
Houston is nicknamed the Space City as NASA is right in their backyard. However, a man in the town seemingly wants to bring the moniker to another level. Darrell Sims calls himself the Alien Hunter as he showed some amazing stuff that he claimed from the outer space.
Private investigator Sims said he was once a G-Man and used the skills to understand profoundly alien abductions. He claimed to have come from an intelligence background with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in secret operations.
Sims revealed that he has proof of the existence of aliens in the Cosmos.
He claimed that they have 1950 cases worldwide. He pointed out one instance wherein a lady came back with an implant that fell out of her eye at her desk in front of her boss. The boss of the woman made sure that Sims got the implant, which he has with him today, according to Sims.
Sims stated that he got into alien research after an alien visited him as a child and continued until he was seventeen years old. However, he admitted that most recollections of alien and UFO sightings are theoretical. For this reason, he collects and examines physical evidence from people who claim to have had a genuine alien encounter.
He noted that if aliens were taking these people physically, then ET physical traces could be found on those people using infrared technology. He detects temperature level on the skin and a residue that comes from the other planets.
Sims said that alien entity sometimes left scars, bumps, lumps, cuts on abducted people. He further explained that their recovered physical evidence suggests that aliens may be biological and have a metallic level in their biology.
Sims showed a set of spheres that he claimed from a young girl who sneezed them out after an alien visited her room and sprayed something in her nose. Whether it is a space fact or fiction, Sims does not care as for him, the only thing that matters is the one they can prove.
In 1977, an astronomer looking for alien life in the nigh sky above Ohio spotted a powerful radio signal so strong that he excitedly wrote 'Wow!' next to his data.
The 72-second blast, spotted by Dr Jerry Ehman through a radio telescope, came from Sagittarius but matched no known celestial object.
Conspiracy theorists have since claimed that the 'Wow! signal', which was 30 times stronger than background radiation, was a message from intelligent extraterrestrials.
But a researcher has now found that the signal, which has perplexed scientists for 40 years, was in fact just the trace of two comets as they shot past Earth.
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The Wow! signal was detected by a radio telescope in Ohio in 1977 as a 72 second-long burst of powerful radio waves during a project searching for alien signals. It earned its name after astronomer Dr Jerry Ehman circled the signal data and wrote' Wow!' in the margin (pictured)
THE STORY OF THE 'WOW!' SIGNAL
The Wow! signal was detected on 15 August 1977 with a radio telescope known as Big Ears at the Ohio State University Radio Observatory in Delaware.
Dr Ehman, who had been working on a project for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, noticed the surprisingly strong signal in a column of alphanumerical data.
With a red pen he scrawled the word 'Wow!' in the margin and circled the sequence.
Astronomers ruled out that the signal came from Earth and could find nothing in our solar system to have produced it.
It is thought to have come from a region of space to the northwest of the globular galaxy cluster M55 in the constellation Sagittarius.
Although Dr Ehman himself has remained sceptical, the signal has led to claims that it may have been a radio beacon or broadcast coming from far beyond our own solar system.
Professor Antonio Paris, an astronomer at St Petersburg College in Florida, has spent the past year investigating the bizarre signal.
Using celestial records he found that two comets, unknown to scientists at the time, were passing by Earth on August 15, 1977 - the night the Wow! signal was detected.
Those comets were discovered in 2006, and last year Professor Paris suggested that a cloud of hydrogen gas in the wake of the celestial objects triggered the signal.
But the scientist had to wait until this year, when the comets flew past Earth again as part of their synonymous six-year orbits around the sun, to prove his theory.
In a paper published in the Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, he has now proven once and for all that the signals were not caused by aliens.
When the comets passed by this year, the signal they produced was exactly the same as that seen in 1977.
Speaking about the theory before its confirmation, Professor Paris admitted that he had wanted to be wrong.
'There's still a bit inside of me that hopes it was aliens,' he said.
When he first published the theory last year, Professor Paris said the comets produced a cloud of hydrogen gas in their wake which released radiation.
The frequency of the signal spotted by Dr Ehman in 1977 matches the emissions produced by hydrogen atoms, he said.
The clouds of hydrogen that surrounds them as sunlight breaks up the frozen water on their surface extends millions of miles around the comets, meaning they could produce a powerful signal.
Previous research has found that two comets were in the right region of the sky at the time the signal was received. A study of the comets as they passed Earth this year has revealed that the comets gave similar radio signals to those detected in 1977 (stock image)
THEORIES FOR WHAT CAUSED THE 'WOW!' SIGNAL
There have been many theories over the years for what could have been the source for the short-lived, narrow band radio signal that became known as the Wow! signal.
At the time, it was seen has having all the traits of having come from a distant planet, but the inability to pick it up again has frustrated astronomers.
While some have taken it to be a radio message broadcast by an alien beacon into space, others have looked for other astronomical sources.
Theories have included collisions between asteroids and stars, flares from stars, merging white dwarfs and colliding neutron stars.
'Several investigations into the "Wow!" signal have ruled out the source as terrestrial in origin or other objects such as satellites, planets and asteroids,' Professor Paris said at the time.
'From 1977 July 27 to 1977 August 15, comets 266P/Christensen and P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) were transiting in the neighborhood of the Chi Sagittarii star group.
'Ephemerides for both comets during this orbital period placed them at the vicinity of the "Wow!" signal.
'These two comets were not detected until after 2006, therefore, the comets and their hydrogen clouds were not accounted for during the signal emission.'
The Wow! signal was detected on 15 August 1977 with a radio telescope known as Big Ears at the Ohio State University Radio Observatory in Delaware.
The Wow! signal was detected as coming from a region of space close to the M55 galaxy cluster close to the constellation Sagittarius (illustrated), but new research suggests the signal may have been produced by two comets, undiscovered at the time
THE COMETS BEHIND THE WOW! SIGNAL
Comet 266P/Christensen was first discovered in 2006.
It orbits the sun every 6.79 years.
The closest it passes to Earth is 125 million miles.
P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs) was first discovered in 2008.
It passes much closer to Earth, at a distance of 61 million miles and orbits the sun every 6.8 years.
Dr Ehman, who had been working on a project for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute, noticed the surprisingly strong signal in a column of alphanumerical data.
With a red pen he scrawled the word 'Wow!' in the margin and circled the sequence.
Astronomers ruled out that the signal came from Earth and could find nothing in our solar system to have produced it.
It is thought to have come from a region of space to the northwest of the globular galaxy cluster M55 in the constellation Sagittarius.
Although Dr Ehman himself has remained sceptical, the signal has led to claims that it may have been a radio beacon or broadcast coming from far beyond our own solar system.
By training radio telescopes (Very Large Array pictured) onto the part of the sky where the signal was detected, the comet theory was confirmed as the two celestial objects passed by Earth in January 2017
Some have taken it as evidence of alien life as the frequency is widely thought to be one that could be used by extraterrestrials to communicate.
The mystery surrounding the signal has only been compounded by the inability to pick up the signal again, despite repeated attempts by increasingly more powerful radio telescopes.
However, at the time, researchers did not know of the existence of comets of 266P/Christensen and P/2008 Y2 (Gibbs). The pair was only discovered after 2006.
Comet 266P/Christensen orbits the sun every seven and a half years and is more than 125 million miles from Earth.
Former International Space Station commander and NASA astronaut Leroy Chiao visited Wollongong yesterday to share his experiences in zero gravity, discuss whether aliens exist, and show how the Illawarra is helping protect astronauts from radiation damage in space.
Dr Chiao is the kind of person you could spend an entire day talking to and still not have all your fascinating questions about space answered.
Thankfully, the American astronaut is happy to patiently and enthusiastically talk about life in orbit.
A day on the space station
As commander of the International Space Station (ISS), Dr Chiao orbited the Earth every 90 minutes while travelling more than 28,000 kilometres an hour.
That brings around a sunset or sunrise every 45 minutes.
"Your schedule is set for you down to the minute," he said.
"You check off what you accomplish each day and then you sleep and wake up and your schedule has been created for you — it's there on the computer, so you're kept busy.
"Even if you've got a great view of the Earth, you can feel a bit cooped up, and the ISS is big but it's not that big."
Dr Chiao said the launch into space took about nine minutes before you felt the weightlessness of zero gravity, and completing a spacewalk was a "fantastic feeling".
"You're very well trained for the spacewalk, so when you go outside it's not like the movies," he said.
Dr Chiao said recent discoveries of water on one of Saturn's moons, and amino acids on comets, left him in no doubt about extra-terrestrial life.
"To find this kind of evidence of life in our own backyard means to me the idea there's other life in the universe is pretty much a given," he said.
"I think there's all kinds of life out there, including intelligent life, but the reason we haven't found each other is because of vast distances."
Dr Chiao said given how big the universe was and how another planet could be millions of light years away, it was not a surprise we had not found extra-terrestrial life.
How Wollongong research benefits astronauts
Dr Chiao visited to speak at the University of Wollongong about his experiences in space, where NASA is headed, and how research at the university into radiation directly benefits astronauts.
"The biggest technical challenge in flying people longer and further from the Earth is biomedical," he said.
"A lot of things happen, including radiation, and when we venture beyond the Earth's magnetosphere, we're no longer protected from radiation from the sun.
"That's why the university's work here is so important — we need to understand the radiation environment and have effective detectors that can tell us what we're being exposed to and how to counteract what we're being exposed to."
The detectors used on board aircraft such as the ISS have a practical application in treating cancer patients.
"Space provides a unique kind of environment that's almost impossible to create on Earth," University of Wollongong researcher Stuart George said.
"The techniques we develop with these particle detectors are directly applicable to the measurements you'd do for ion therapy here on Earth.
"We've had these in a proton therapy centre and done measurements that are medically relevant.
"They will be used by treatment planners and physicists to better understand how to control their beams and control where they're putting their radiation inside people and their tumours."
WATCH: Deputy sheriff describes seeing 'dead aliens in flying saucer at Roswell UFO crash
WATCH: Deputy sheriff describes seeing 'dead aliens in flying saucer at Roswell UFO crash
A VIDEO showing a former deputy sheriff claim to have seen a "flying saucer" and "dead aliens" at an alleged UFO crash site in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, has been released.
Last month Express.co.uk exclusively revealed how the testimony of the late Charles H Forgus, former deputy sheriff of Big Springs in Howard County, Texas, was the latest person to claim to have witnessed the legendary UFO crash in the desert around the town nearly 70 years ago.
Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since July 1947 after the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.
But the following day the military retracted the statement, claiming it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.
Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the "crashed craft", which along with the wreckage were then taken to a mysterious top-secret military base.
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The interview was carried out in the 1990s, but has only now been made public.
There have been claims and counter claims, including that the bodies were crash test dummies and it had been a top-secret balloon spying on the Russians.
All the confusion means it is one of the world's biggest conspiracy theories to this day.
Mr Forgus' account is published for the first time in the new book UFOs Today: 70 Years of Lies, Disinformation and Government Cover-Up by Dr Irena Scott, which was published by Flying Disk Press on June 1.
Now the original video of his interview, aged 81, in 1999, has been released to accompany the book.
The account appears to have remained buried until now, due to copyright issues according to Flying Disk Press publisher Phillip Mantle.
Mr Forgus claimed to have been driving with an unnamed sheriff from Texas to Roswell to pick up a prisoner on the night of the alleged crash, when details of the incident "came over on the police radio".
He was interviewed in 1999 by Los Angeles private investigator Deanna Bever, who was looking into Roswell, and another interviewer whose initials are only given as LR.
Dr Scott said in the book: "Unlike other eyewitness accounts where few people actually reported seeing bodies, this witness reported seeing the craft and the bodies in a crash that appeared significant enough to report."
He told of a perfectly round saucer that reportedly crashed into a canyon, after it appeared to have hit a "side wall".
Dr Scott wrote: "He thought there are about four beings, around five feet tall with large eyes and feet like ours.
"Their skin was brownish and he didn’t see any blood. Their bodies were being picked up by a lift attached to a crane and swung into a truck.
"He said there were about three or four hundred military people there; he didn’t know from which branch but said they were not Air Force.
"He and the sheriff watched for a while and the military people saw them.
Unlike other eyewitness accounts where few people actually reported seeing bodies, this witness reported seeing the craft and the bodies in a crash that appeared significant enough to report.
Dr Irena Scott
"Later they were told to leave.
"He said that a government person came around to talk to him later, but he told him to shut up and go away."
The book has been written using portions of a rough transcript of the video tape of the interview.
Mr Forgus said: "What I seen of him looked just like the one we see on television, with big eyes.
"There was a big round thing in the canyon. It was about 100 feet across.
"They put that on a truck and hauled it away. They wouldn’t let us get very close to it either."
The testimony has been met with doubters already.
In a blog post on website theufochronicles.com Roswell UFO expert Kevin Randle said: "Though Forgus didn’t know which branch of the service they were in, the US Army on their fatigues should have been a big clue.
"He was asked if there were lights on the craft and he said, 'No, they went out when it banged into the wall in the creek’.
"Though I’m not sure how he would have known that the lights went out when it hit because he wasn’t there."
He said the crash site location described by Mr Forgus matched that given by the late Frank Kaufmann, whose account "has already been discredited”.
Mr Randle wrote: "He said he could see the bodies, though he didn’t have a good description of them.
"He talked about the big eyes. He said, ‘their eyes looked like the ones we see on television and the pictures of them’.
"But he was so far away, according to him, it is difficult to believe that he would have seen the eyes.
"The real clue is about having seen alien creatures on television.
"He just picked the most popular version of the aliens to describe."
Mr Randle claimed the roads surrounding the crash site would have been blocked so they would have been unable to even get there.
He added: "The other part of the story that fails is that they heard about this on the police radio, which seems unlikely, but even if that had been true, they wouldn’t have heard instructions on how to find the place.
"You can’t see it from the main roads, and the gravel and dirt roads into the area are quite rough and quite confusing.
"If you don’t know where you are going, you’d get lost. Without someone leading them in, or precise directions which wouldn’t have been broadcast, they would never have found their way to the crash site."
Asked what the author and Mr Mantle thought of the testimony, Mr Mantle said: "We remain open minded on the testimony documented bu Deputy Sheriff Forgus.
"We hope that by releasing this information now that others may be able to shed more light on it one way or the other."
There’s a spectacular bubble of gas forming around a massive star about 7,000 light-years from Earth.
Called the Bubble Nebula, the cosmic spectacle is powered by a star that’s 45 times more massive than our sun and thousands of times hotter. That heat pushes stellar winds of ionized gas outward, forming the bubble and the larger nest of clouds surrounding it.
Discovered in 1787, it can be seen like never before in this video based on composite imagery from the Hubble Telescope (with oxygen colored blue, hydrogen colored green, and nitrogen colored red).
Emission nebula like the Bubble, are often referred to as a “stellar nurseries” because the heat, ionized gas, and cosmic dust work together to form new stars in the region. This makes structures like the Bubble an important area of study for scientists, as learning how young stars form can help us understand how our sun formed and, ultimately, our entire solar system.
SpaceX made history on Monday when it successfully reused a Dragon pressure vessel for the first time. Mission CRS-11, the second Dragon launch of the year, was captured by the International Space Station at 8.52 a.m. Central time, ahead of schedule. The success of the mission is a major step toward the company’s main goals of reducing flight costs and preparing for a manned mission to Mars.
“These people have supplied us with a vast amount of science and supplies, really fuel for the engine of innovation we get to call home, the International Space Station,” Jack Fisher, a NASA astronaut serving on Expedition 52, said during the live webcast.
The vessel successfully lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket Saturday evening, taking off from launch complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center, the 100th launch from the pad. The launch sent the vessel on a 41-hour voyage to the space station. Initially, the launch was scheduled to take place on Thursday, but unforeseen lightning meant the crew pulled the plug just 25 minutes before liftoff.
CRS-11, named because it’s the eleventh commercial resupply services mission, is an important milestone in the company’s history. Reusing a vessel is not as simple as strapping it back to a rocket and sending it up again: SpaceX has faced several hurdles on this journey, including working out how to stop salty seawater from ruining the capsule when it returns to Earth and lands in the ocean.
The mission’s success demonstrates SpaceX’s ability to reuse capsules, and bodes well for the ongoing development of the upcoming Dragon 2 craft. This future vessel will transport humans to and from the space station, and will represent the next step toward CEO Elon Musk’s ultimate goal of manned flights to Mars and the establishment of a human colony.
The capsule was first used on the CRS-4 mission back in September 2014. That mission brought the first 3D printer into space, and was just the fourth time SpaceX was contracted onto a resupply mission with NASA.
This time around, the Dragon is carrying nearly 6,000 pounds of scientific equipment, supplies and hardware. The equipment will be used by both Expedition 52 and 53 Among the cargo is NASA’s NICER, the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer. This is a finely-tuned spectrometer capable of reading both the thermal and non-thermal emissions sent out from neutron stars.
Astronomers are baffled by the discovery of an extremely hot exoplanet that in many ways isn’t like a planet at all. The 300 million-year-old “KELT-9b” is young in space terms, but may not be around for long.
At 7,800 degrees Fahrenheit, KELT-9b is hotter than any known planet and most stars. But that’s nothing compared to the 17,900-degree heat of its host star, which is so hot that scientists are pretty sure it’s evaporating KELT-9b.
It “radiates so much ultraviolet radiation that it may completely evaporate the planet,” Keivan Stassun, director of a study on KELT-9b published in Nature on Monday, told NASA.
KELT-9b may escape that fate, but only because the star — which is growing, and will eventually become a red giant — will probably engulf it first. “The long-term prospects for life, or real estate for that matter, on KELT-9b are not looking good,” Stassun says.
That’s too bad, because KELT-9b is pretty amazing; in addition to its star-like heat, it may trail evaporating planetary material behind it like a comet. KELT-9b does meet the qualifications for being a planet, but it’s an oddity.
KELT-9b also has an unusually large radius for its mass, probably because radiation from the host star has caused its atmosphere to balloon outward. Unlike any planet in our solar system, its orbit runs perpendicular to the star’s rotation.
An artist imagines KELT-9b orbiting its star.
KELT-9b is tidally locked to its star, meaning that it only ever faces the star on one side, like how we only see one side of the moon from Earth. This makes for an uneven heat distribution: The orange dayside is so hot that the hydrogen and helium atoms can’t even bond together to form molecules, while the dark red nightside (which experiences constant darkness) may allow molecules to at least temporarily form. “The transition from the dayside to the nightside might be very interesting,” the study’s coauthor Scott Gaudi tells Inverse, “with molecules reforming as gas moves from the hotter dayside to the cooler nightside.”
The planet is way too hot to be habitable by humans, even if it weren’t doomed. Still, it’s an important discovery; Gaudi told CNN that a discussion about colonizing other planets “should take place in the context of understanding how planetary systems form,” and scientists don’t yet understand how this incredibly hot system was created.
KELT-9b “demonstrates that giant planets can indeed form around very massive stars, and that these planets can migrate to very close in orbits relatively early in the life of those stars,” Gaudi tells Inverse.
Hopefully they’ll soon gain more insight into KELT-9b’s quirks. Until then, this exoplanet weirdo will be whirling up there on the road less traveled by, like a darn individual.
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